Babak Ghazi

Babak Ghazi is a British Artist who lives and works in London, known for the pruduction of the magaine ‘Not Yet’. His over all practice can be referred to this title; the focus on the idea temporary objects, art and narrative. He sometimes work with the appropriation, history and plays with already made art and image to present in new ways.

One of Ghazi’s exhibitions ‘Lifework’, displayed in Raven Row in 2012, alongside Gareth Jones, presents archived items stored in filing. This display shows an accumulation of images, magazines, cuttings which are filed with individual titles to separate each area of objects. For example one reads ‘Madonna Cuttings’, another ‘Animal Portraits’. This work reflects an ongoing process, something that is not finished or never will be and represents the archival action of the artist; like a messy office or filing cabinet, but organised. The obsessive collecting of visual artefacts plays with the idea of individual and making by both drawing attention to specific categorised objects, but also takes away the uniqueness of the objects once stored among so many others.

'Rejecting the completeness of an artwork, the content of Lifework will be communicated as an open-ended library or resource, in which found and fabricated cultural material is presented collage-like in box files and crates. Lifework is an archive, a diary and a confession – an unfixed ongoing project. It is also a fiction, contrived as object and performance. Much of its material records the successful construction of artistic personas and the way in which artifice, stylisation and self-invention can constitute moments of revelation.' (http://www.ravenrow.org/exhibition/babak_ghazi_gareth_jones/)